edmund ironside

1. 1.

   king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)

   SynonymsEdmund II

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Questions about edmund ironside

What does edmund ironside mean?

edmund ironside means "king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)".

What is another word for edmund ironside?

Close synonyms include Edmund II. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is edmund ironside a common word?

edmund ironside is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.